Dept. of Agriculture. 
BLUEBERRY FLOWERS. 
Photograph, taken at Whitesbog, N. J.,on May 12, of a vigorous blueberry twig just coming into 
flower. In the preceding autumn and winter this twig was unbranched and naked. Its 
upper seven buds were fat flowering buds, often called fruit buds. Those below were leaf 
buds. From each of the leaf buds has grown a leafy shoot, from each of the flowering buds a 
cluster of flowers. For the relation of the flower structure to pollination by bees, see page 17. 
(Natural size.) 
